Improvement in the manufacture of counter-stiffeners for boots and shoes



H. R0 GER S Mnufacture of Cupnter-Stiffe'ner for Boots N0.I59,2 20.' s Patentedlan.26,1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOMER ROGERS, OF SUDBIIRY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND STEPHEN MOORE, OF SAME PLACE. 7'

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COUNTERST|FFENERS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,220, dated January 26, 1875; application filed December 9, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HOMER ROGERS, of Sudbury, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the lllanufacture of Counters for Boots or Shoes from a Sheet of 'Leather, or other proper.material; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 denotes the method of separating a sheet into duplex counters, and Fig. 2 an end view of all of such duplex counters, such view exhibiting the mode of separating it into two counters with beveled straight edges. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 denote the common mode of cutting a strip or sheet into counters of semielliptical shape.

In the making of counters or heel-stiifeners, it is desirable to have the curved edge of each lift of full thickness, or nearly so, and the straight edge or chord beveled.

The object of my invention is to obtain such a counter with a considerable saving of stock, in comparison to the modes of dicing shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, in which the counters are diced or cut as semi-ellipses, and in order to scarf them at their straight edges each has to be beveled so as to lose a strip of material triangular in cross-section.

In carrying out my invention, I dice or cut the strip or series of double counters or ellipses, commencing at one edge with ellipses and semi-ellipses, alternating with each other, as shown at B A B. These ellipses and semiellipses are tangential, or touch at their curved edges, in manner as shown, the spaces between them serving to indicate all the waste.

After having so cut duplex counters or ellipses from the sheet of leather, I split obliquely each of them along its longer diameter, in manner as shown at S S in Fig. 2, the medial line of the plane of out being coincident with the central line a of the ellipse. In this way I save with reference to the old methods a strip on each counter as long as the base of the counter, and having a section or right-angled triangle having a hypotenuse equal to the line S S, all of which is a very material saving, comparatively speaklng.

I claim- The above-described improved method of forming counters or heel-stiffeners, it consisting in first separating the sheet of stock into ellipses or duplex forms A, and next splitting each of them obliquely through its longer axis or medial line, all substantially as shown and explained.

HOMER ROGERS.

Witnesses:

JER-VIS E. How, BENJ. H. RICHARDSON. 

